Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1887-02-24

rha real estate transactions tor last
-. ~ amounted to $6S9,579; and for
- atst week in February, $195,426.S5
rhrpe deaths have resulted in the Dog
s. family. at Glenville, Neb., from eat
y noi.oned prunes. How the deadly
y ~ III ia the fruit is not known at
s.ss S The family cons sted of father,
! ,ther, three children and father in
All partook of the fruit Monday
a'sbt Oh Tuesday morning the mother
:. e father in law were dead. and one Of
NJ children has since dleG.
Toere seems to be quite a religious
.v.kening at Anthony, Kan, eighty
tour persons having united with the
Raptst church alone since January /.
The two Indians that were to be hung
]. Wichita, Kansas, have been resplted
.ud the hanging viii not take place un-
ii March 4.
lawrence, Kan, has 2,294 children IN
her public schools. The average at
tendance is 1859.
There are several thousand head of
mtile being wintered almost in sight of
PEABODY, Kan.
A farmer By the name of VIM.
Garrett committed suicide by hanging
hlnssli. He lived near Lawrence, Kan.
md was "a years of age.
The Salvation Army draws crowded
houses at Usage City, Kan.
A man was found dead On the Chica-
90 cattle ranch in Greenwood county,
Kans. he was. found some distant e
from any travelled road, and the fact
that buggy tracks were found leads to
tie superstition that he was murdered at
Dme other point and taken In the buggy
TO that place and thrown QUITE Que
hand was badly cut and one ear torn
hsli o8. The man was evidently a
4plck peddler," as his pack was near
bin, and had in it raz0rs, combs, hand
lerChefs, etc.
AshOoting affair occurred in King
nan, Kans., on last Saturday night which
resulted in the death Of Steve B ;dtOrd,
druggist. Taylor Whitelaw, who
Did the shooting, is uader arrest. He is
Another Of Judge Whitelaw, late dem
oe:atic candidate for chief justice of the
Iupreme court.
Inc following statement, showing the
20 Insurance business transacted in Kan
= during the year 1885, as shown by
lRnual statements of the 31st of Deem
Peg last, by companies authorized to do
zen business In the state during said
leafi also, per cent of losses paid to
RnIums received for the previous
reg, has just been issued by Superin-
.usnt 4. B. Morris: stock companies
~aitks written during the year, SILL
tOl 66; premiums received thereon,
l,ses, l0S47; average rate OF premiums
= business IN Kansas, $1.67; losses paid
iscS, S15S,SO1 As; per cent Of losses
"a % premiums received, 40 IS; losses
Incurred in 1885. $500, 5Oe.65; per cent
Y losses paid to premiums received for
e previous year, 1888. Mutual com
sas-kisks written during the year,
ssoox'l4S So; premiums received there
~ sl1c.lS6.77; losses paid in 1886
!. saG2li losses incurred in 1885
ssaSIO.c6. Aggregate-Risks written
lung the year, $119,1s6,59724; pre-.
-.uns received thereon, $2,t39,295.24
1.sisge ra'e Of premiums on business in
slasss, IL; losses paid IN 1886
.ss0,S4s 81; per cent of losses PAID to
r .uau1s = ceived, $4O.51; losses in.
.. u 1883 $sse.Ss3.51; per cent Of
- paid to premiums received fol
'NOus year, 4i.22.
Il. 70 county line bill passed The Kansa,
- Fndsy without oppc sition, six
e... COUNTIES being created. The new
.saes created are Haskell, Grant
asOu' KearneY, Garfield and Gray
-. .Vuntes are now the same as they
~. - 'Our years ago, when the old county,
- y. Vi. asie obiterated, except that Arap,
hpos '' y u now Haskell, and B 1tfalc